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Re:Insurance Companies Are Paying Cops to Investigate Their ... by Nasrudith on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:47AM (#20715660)
Of the ruling class - not capital. Those two are not synonymous historically at all - remember the literal aristocracy of the warrior elite which also shows up in dictatorships.

This isn't mere pendantry but pointing out it is a matter of power.

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Re:Insurance Companies Are Paying Cops to Investigate Their ... by theflyinghorse on Friday August 16, 2019 @11:23AM (#20716090)
Is capital not synonymous with ruling class in the United States? From the outside perspective it looks like it definitely is
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Re:Insurance Companies Are Paying Cops to Investigate Their ... by Matticus_Rex on Friday August 16, 2019 @11:54AM (#20716423)
Not really, no. The American aristocracy tends to have a lot of capital, but has been pretty exclusionary toward those without that aristocratic background. Less than parts of Europe, but it's the same beast. America has historically had pretty high income mobility. In my area the majority of capital owners are not from the upper classes.
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